Mattress-filling machine



H. C. SMITH.

umzzss FILLING MACHINE.

Filed Nov. 2v. 1925 lApril ze. 1921.

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HUBERT C. SMITH, OF ST. LOUIS, IVIXSSOUBJ...

M'ATTREss-Fitnine MACHINE.

Application filed November 27, 1925. Serial No. 71,689.

This invention relates to mattress filling machines, and has for itsmain object to provide a machine that can be used for lilling thelongitudinally divided casing vor tick of a hinged mattress suoli as areused with folding couches and davenports. v y

Another object of my invention is to provide a machine that can be usedfor filling conventional mattress ticks or casings of Avarious widthsand also for filling the casing` of a hinged mattress.

Figure l of the drawings is a vertical longitudinal sectional view' of amattress filling machine constructed in accordance with my invention. y

Figure 2 is a top plan View of said machine.

Figure 3 is a front elevational view; and

Figure 4i is a detail transverse sectional view, taken on the line e-lof Figure 2.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate the preferred form of myinvention7 A designates the bed of the machine on which the materialused to fill the mattress is placed, said bed being equipped with sidepieces, B designates the pressing device that is used to compress,compact or pack down the material on the bed of the machine, Cdesignates the spout at the discharge end of the bed over which the openend of the mattress tick or casing w is drawn, as shown in Figure l, andD designates the pusher that is used to force said compressed orcompacted material through the spout C into the mattress tick or casing.In order that the machine may be usedA for filling conventional ticks crcasings varying in width from 26 inches to 56 inches, the bed A of themachine is made up of a number of loose boards 1, one or more of whichcan be removed when it is desired to reduce the width of said bed, thespout C is constructed in such a manner that the width of same can bevaried to correspond with the width of the bed and the pusher D isprovided with a removable section D that can also be adjusted laterallyof the bed so as to make it correspond in length to the width of thebed. Any suitable means can be used for moving the pusher longitudinallyof the bed, such, for example, as a sprocket chain 2 connected to thepusher D, and the pressing device B can be constructed and arranged invarious ways, the pressing device of the machine here-in illustratedbeing supportedat its rear end by a hinge 3 and having its front endeach other by the connected to a sustaining device i which is adapted tobevlowered so as to cause said iressing` device to move downwardly fromthe position shown in broken lines in Figure l, and thus press orcompact `the material positioned on the bed A'of the machine.

In order that the machine may be used for Y filling a vhinged* mattresstick such as is used in folding davenports and couches and whichconsists of a casing whoseinterior is divided into ltwo compartments bya seam that extends longitudinally of the tick at vthe center of thesame, I haveequipped themachine with a removable dividing bar E which isprovided at its front end with a means that divides the spout C of themachine into two separate and distinct portions that are adapted toenter the two compartments of a longitudinally-divided mattress tick orcasing. In the form of my invention herein illustrated the means justreferred to is formed by two spout members 5 on the front end of thedividing-bar E arranged in spaced relation so that they will straddlethe seam at the center of a longitudinallydivided tick or casing whichis drawn over the spout, as shown in broken lines in Figure 2, thecentral portion of the spout C being cut away at G, as shown in AFigure2, so as to receive the center seam or longitudinallydisposed dividingelement of the casing positioned on the spout. The dividingA bar E canbe retained in operative position on the bed of the machine in anysuitable way, as, for example, by a removable pin 7 that projectsdownwardly through said bar into the bed A, andthe adjustable sect-ion Dof the pusher is provided with a hole for receiving the dividing bar Eso as to permit the pusher to travel back and forth longitudinally ofthe bed of the machine when the dividing bar E is in use.

When the `dividing bar E is arranged in Voperative position, as showninFigure 1,

the downward movement of the pressing device B compresses or compactsthe material on the bed of the machine into two separate and distinctbatches that are separated from dividing bar. Thereafter, when thepusher D moves forwardly said separate batches of material will beforced longitudinally of the bed through the spout C into the twocompartments of the vdivided mattress tick or casing whose open end isarranged over the spout of the machine with the center seam or divisionof said casing los' Vreducing the cost of constructing hingedmattresses. lVhen it is 'desired to use the VVmachine to fill aconventional mattress tick or casing it is only necessary to remove thedlvidingbar Erom the bed of the machine,

thus rre-converting said bed into a single Y zone and re-converting thespout C into one chine which can be used for illing alongitudinally-.divided tick or casing, such as is used with a hingedmattress, I wish it to be *Y understood that one feature yof myinvention consists of a mattress lilling machine provided withany'suitable means for compressing or compacting two batches ofmaterial, and any suitable means for thereafter forcing said batches ofmaterial into the two compartments of a longitudinally-divided mattresstick, it being immaterial whether the part ot the machine through whichsaid batches of material are introducedy into the y, two compartments ofthe mattress tick is constructed in the form of two separate spouts orone wide spout that is divided into two separate portions. f

Having thus described my invention7 what l claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A mattress filling machine', comprising` a bed adapted to receivematerial which is to be used to fill a mattress tick, means forcompressing` orccompacting said material, a discharge spout that isadaptedV to be. inf serted in the open end of said tick, a means forintroducing the material into said tick, a removable dividing baradaptedto bearranged on said bed so as to dividethe bed into twoVZones,` and spout members onsaid dividing bar arranged in spacedrelation and adapted to be positioned in said spout so as to divide theinterior of same into two portions. l

2. Aniattress filling machine, comprising a bed, a pressing device forcompactingor.` compressingmaterialen saidbed, a pusher, a spout at thedischarge end of said-bedv con-r structed so as to permit the open endof the longitudinally-divided mattress tick or casing to be drawn oversame, vand a removable dividing bar adapted to be positioned' on saidbed andrprovided on its front end wit-h spaced memberswhich are adaptedto straddle the seam orfdividing element at the center of the mattresstick. v

HUBERT c. SMITH.

